בֶּרֶכְיָה

be.rekh.yah

Berechiah

Strong’s H1296Proper name, a person11 times in the Hebrew Bible

berekiah11

In the text

1 Chronicles 3:20וּבֶרֶכְיָה
and five others: Hashubah, Ohel, Berechiah, Hasadiah, and Jushab-hesed.
2 Chronicles 28:12בֶּרֶכְיָהוּ
Then some of the leaders of the Ephraimites—Azariah son of Jehohanan, Berechiah son of Meshillemoth, Jehizkiah son of Shallum, and Amasa son of Hadlai—stood in opposition to those arriving from the war.
Nehemiah 3:4בֶּרֶכְיָה
Next to them, Meremoth son of Uriah, the son of Hakkoz, made repairs. Next to him, Meshullam son of Berechiah, the son of Meshezabel, made repairs; and next to him, Zadok son of Baana made repairs as well.
Zechariah 1:1בֶּרֶכְיָה
In the eighth month of the second year of Darius, the word of the LORD came to the prophet Zechariah son of Berechiah, the son of Iddo, saying:

יְבֶרֶכְיָ֫הוּ n.pr.m. (Yah blesseth) father of a Zechariah in Isaiah’s time Is 8:2; usually in abbreviated form as foll.: בֶּרֶכְיָה,

1. son of Zerubbabel

2. a Levite guard of the ark

3. father of Meshullam, one of Nehemiah’s chiefs

4. father of prophet Zechariah

5. father of Asaph

6. Ephraimite chief

Sources: Brown-Driver-Briggs (1906, public domain) from the Open Scriptures Hebrew Lexicon (CC BY 4.0), glosses from STEPBible TBESH (CC BY 4.0); STEPBible TAHOT (Hebrew Bible, Leningrad Codex, CC BY 4.0); the Berean Standard Bible (public domain). Reformatted by Word Study, wording unchanged. All sources and licenses.